The Chocolate Cafe

Stopped in on a whim and was surprisingly delighted. Thoughtful staff, lovely coffee and great food. We will definitely head back soon!

Very good breakfast spot. I had the full English and my companion the smashed avocado, smoked salmon and poached eggs.

Eggs were perfectly poached and all the ingredients were tasty and fresh. Portion size spot on, didn't eat for the rest of the day. Great quality sausage, bacon and black pudding and the potato rosti a nice touch as you don't get that anywhere else in the local area was complimented with the tasty home made beans.

Coffee was decent and well worth the price which was £27 for two people. Nice friendly service, quick and no fuss.

We also had a choice table over looking the urn which was very relaxing.

Will be going back. Thank you.

Good food & excellent service. Would highly recommend

This is a great shop that I still frequently visit. It was previously owned by a relative so always had good things to say about it, but it seems to have improved over the years with the new owner

Went for lunch with the wife, toddler and pooch. Great service and lovely setting went for the smashed avocado- wow! It was delicious. Will be back soon.

Lovely hot chocolate but awful service. The young girls that are serving are more interested in chatting amongst themselves than serving both upstairs in the cafe and downstairs in the shop.

Recommended here for a business meeting and the boss was very impressed. Always loved visiting here over the years, but it gets better and better every time I visit. Highly recommend ‘The Peel Tower’ for breakfast, as well as their amazing hot chocolates. Great to have a top small business right on our doorstep! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is the 2nd time I have visited The Chocolate Cafe and was extremely disappointed! Our party of 3 arrived to allow plenty of time to eat before they closed - or so we thought! There was a queue of people waiting to be seated when we arrived so we had a short wait. We had another wait before our waitress came and asked whether we had ordered. We gave her our order and about 10 minutes later she returned to tell us none of the items we had ordered were available. We gave her another order. We then had an extremely long wait and were about to question where our food was when the waitress returned and informed us our order had not gone through, she didn't know why and offered us a round of drinks to compensate (we had almost finished our drinks as we had been waiting so long). Obviously we then had yet another wait for our food to arrive. I ordered tuna, onion and cheese ciabatta, which although it tasted very nice, was only luke warm. Ham sandwich was lovely as was the bacon barm.

When we had eaten we asked the waitress if we could order dessert and she informed us they had taken last order so no, we couldn't! I was NOT very happy about this. We had not been informed when they were taking last orders, otherwise we would have ordered our deserts then and it was the staff's fault that it was so late when we finished eating our mains. Not impressed!

As replied to below, I was offered a full refund after posting this review on their Facebook page and being given the excuse that their staff were rusty after 6 months off due to covid - seems to be the go to excuse for bad service these days. I received a message off Google asking me to post a review - so I did. As for staff being upset - I was upset by the way they treated my friends and I. Considering the expensive prices they charge I would expect better and if they can afford to turn down orders due to their own staffs' failings then things haven't been that hard.